If you are planning to attend the October PATCON, please
remit your fees ASAP, but NLT 20 September. Please send check to Cape Carteret address below. I do not
deposit checks until the week before and I would appreciate all remit funds now. Thank you.

Brock Townsend319 Holly LaneCape Carteret, NC 28584

The funds will be used for seating,
tables, porta potties, Eastern North Carolina Barbecue with all the trimmings,
equipment and tent. We would like to encourage company sponsors to
donate money for this event. Any company donating $50 or more will be listed as a
sponsor on the website and at the PATCON.

Free camping Wednesday - Sunday.

No animals, please, as my Peacock is more than sufficient to annoy all but me.:)

*Use the front entrance for those camping. As
you cross the second set of cattle guards, camp to the right in the area
with fruit trees alongside the fence and a fire pit in the middle. For
those not camping, come in the side entrance by
the graveyard and parking will be in the area of the two tobacco barns.

Hands on training session on compass and map work using the USGS map 7.5 minute quad map Wayah Bald referenced in the serialized story "The Patrol" by Dan Morgan. The objective is to learn how to locate UTM positions on a map using appropriate map-tools and navigating between them by compass bearings. Along with this will be quick demo on pace counter beads with a measured 100 meter section to check your pace count. This is the bare minimum basics to learn before moving on to Land Navigation Training.

*FM
transmitter to broadcast podcasts from Forward Observer and Radio Free
Redoubt to demonstrate low power FM as clandestine radio communication.
Pirate box
wireless router serving up pictures, documents and videos. Handheld
scanner to set up as demo and 100 meter walking line for pace counting
down driveway.

How to use an SDR to quickly find locally active frequencies of interest, put into a scanner, and collect/monitor those signal activities. Will have a large screen TV to view the SDR signals and a PowerPoint presentation on collecting and reporting monitoring results for later analysis. All presented in the format of an imaginary mission where you have a reason to be looking for and reporting signal activity.

Once the attendees have had a chance to hands on with land nav and
scanning, they'll get a live fire of transmitting directionally, from an
OP to another OP we will set up, and a QRP NVIS demo. This should
tie everything together, and the attendees will get a chance to do the
stuff they've been reading about.

In 1866, war governor of North Carolina Zebulon B. Vance addressed the Andrew Post, No. 15 of the Grand Army of the Republic and described his patriotic actions in April 1861. A prewar Unionist, Vance instructed the audience that Lincoln and his party offered no reasonable compromise or peaceful alternatives to the South peacefully withdrawing and seeking a more perfect Union.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

“. . . [T]he people of North Carolina, more perhaps than those of any of the eleven seceding States, were devoted to the Union. They had always regarded it with sincerest reverence and affection, and they left it slowly and with sorrow. They were actuated by an honest conviction . . . that their constitutional rights were endangered, not be the mere election of Mr. Lincoln, as others did, but by the course which subsequent events were compelled to take in consequence of the ideas which were behind him.

The Union men of the State, of whom I was one, whatever may have been their doubts of the propriety of secession, were unanimous in the opinion that it was neither right nor safe to permit the general government to coerce a State. But when Fort Sumter was fired upon, immediately followed by Mr. Lincoln’s call for “volunteers to suppress the insurrection,” the whole situation was changed instantly.

The Union men had every prop knocked from under them, and by stress of their own position were plunged into a secession movement. I immediately, with altered voice and manner, called upon the assembled multitude to volunteer, not to fight against but for South Carolina. I said, if war must come I prefer to be with my own people. If we had to shed blood, I preferred to shed Northern rather than Southern blood.

If we had to slay, I had rather slay strangers than my own kindred and neighbors; and that it was better, whether right or wrong, that communities and States should go together and face the horrors of war in a body — sharing a common fate, rather than endure the unspeakable calamities of internecine strife.

To those at all acquainted with the atrocities which have been inflicted upon the divided communities of Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee, the humanity of my action will be apparent. I went and shared the fate of the people of my native State, having first done all I could to preserve the peace and secure the unanimity of the people to avert, as much as possible, the calamities of war.

I do not regret that course. I do not believe there is an honorable man within my hearing to-night who, under the same circumstances, would not have done as I did . . .”

The University of North Carolina survived the war but found itself in desperate condition when Northern carpetbaggers and local scalawags assumed control of State government in 1868. Historian Hugh Talmage Lefler wrote: “Lack of public confidence, financial support, and students closed the University in 1870. A student expressed it graphically when he wrote of a classroom blackboard: “Today this University busted and went to hell.” The University was reopened in 1875 after North Carolinians regained political control of their State, but some might argue today that the carpetbaggers and scalawags remain at Chapel Hill.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

Vandals and Goths at Chapel Hill

“Of the seventy-eight new Trustees of the University, only four had been members of the former Board, and they were men who had seldom attended meetings of the Trustees and really cared very little about the fate of the University. At the meeting of the new Board in Raleigh, in June 1868, several names were brought forward for the presidency.

After several days of travail the Board brought forth Mr. Solomon Pool, a native of Elizabeth City, North Carolina . . . To be sure, he had no “established reputation” for scholarship, though he was a man of some ability. Immediately after the close of “The War” in 1866, Mr. Pool had resigned his position as Tutor in the University to take a job as a Deputy Appraiser in the Revenue Service of the hated Reconstruction Government, allying himself with the Republican party.

The word “opportunist” had not been invented, but “traitor,” “renegade,” and “apostate” were freely hurled at his complacent head. Mr. Joseph [Engelhard], editor of the Wilmington Journal, said in one issue of his paper that the University was “infested with pismires” (termites?) and the very next week he wrote that it was “presided over by nincompoops.”

The Board of Trustees had its own troubles in forming a new faculty. Mr. S.[S]. Ashley, a Massachusetts Yankee, who was Superintendent of Public Education, placed a relative, James A. Martling, in the “Chair of Belles Lettres,” whatever that means. The Martling family occupied the house recently made vacant by my grandfather’s death, and June Spencer and I, living next door, watched with scornful eyes the daughters of the family . . . with their village beaux on the piazza or strolling in the moonlight, but there was no communication between us.

George Dickson, Professor of Agriculture, was a Friend from Philadelphia who came South as a missionary to the Negroes. He brought Bibles, Testaments, and hymn books from the good Quakers of his city, a fine and generous gesture – if only the recipients had been able to read. Friend Dickson went to England to inquire into some new ideas in agriculture for the benefit of the South. He never came back.

During the first year of the Reconstruction Administration there were thirty-five students in attendance . . . just little bare-foot boys from the village and the adjoining country, with their home-made breeches held up by a string across one shoulder, and their dinner in a little tin bucket. Now and then a small black face appeared among them. None of them knew what it was all about. It was just a grand frolic for them to be “goin’ to college.”

Nor were the pupils altogether appreciative of their advantages. We find one A.J. Banks haled before the faculty for non-attendance upon his classes. His excuse was that he did not want to study Greek, nor did he want to stay in college with “them Yanks.”

The grim record shows that the Archives of the Literary Societies were broken into and their contents scattered. A box of Siamese curios presented to the University by the Reverend Daniel McGilvary, a Presbyterian missionary to Siam, was broken, and objects of rare beauty and great value stolen or destroyed. Scientific apparatus was smashed into bits, and great damage was done to the buildings and libraries of the University . . . owls and bats flew in the broken windows of the buildings, the campus was a jungle of weeds, cattle and hogs roamed the unlighted streets at night.

From a charming, dignified home of cultured people, who enjoyed a gracious society, Chapel Hill had become a desolate, silent wilderness. Even the strangers who composed the puppet faculty disliked each other, the village, the State, and the institution they were expected to serve.”

In the wake of the wonderful decision by the people of the United
Kingdom to #Brexit, some conservatives in Congress have decided to seize
the moment and push for an #Amexit (American Exit) from the United
Nations! It’s an idea that conservatives have long supported and may now
grab the national imagination, as Americans seek new ways to disconnect
themselves from the corrupt establishment that runs our political
world.

Saturday, August 27 11 am - 5:30 pm - On The Beach at Western Ocean Regional Access!! (next to The Islander)

The Town of Emerald Isle is excited to announce the return of the
Emerald Isle Beach Music Festival this August 27! It's been 17 years
since the last Beach Music Festival was held in Emerald Isle, and the
new 2016 event promises to match the great times of the festivals of the
1980s and 1990s!

We've got a great lineup of top performers planned, including:

Sammy O'Banion

Spare Change

Hip Pocket

Too Much Sylvia

The Tams

Jim Quick & Coastline.

Mark your calendars now, and make plans to be back in Emerald Isle
for the return of the Emerald Isle Beach Music Festival on August 27!

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for shooting to death a Coptic priest in Egypt Thursday.

Father Raphael
Musa, the priest of St. George Church in El-Arish in the northern Sinai
was returning from mass Thursday when he was shot in the head multiple
times by an unknown assailant, according to local police.

Shortly thereafter, ISIS claimed responsibility for the killing in an online post accusing Musa of “waging war against Islam.”

CIA Director John Brennan said Britain’s vote to leave is the biggest
challenge facing the European Union in recent years, prioritizing
consequences of the referendum vote over the threat of terror posed by
the Islamic State as refugees from the Middle East continue to stream
into the continent.

“Of all the crises the EU has faced in recent years, the UK vote to leave may well be it’s greatest challenge,” Brennan said during opening remarks
at the Council on Foreign Relations Wednesday, citing the unprecedented
uncertainty facing the union and increasing difficulty of decision
making and consensus building.

“Brexit is pushing the EU into a period of introspection that will
pervade virtually everything the EU does in the coming weeks months and
even years ahead,” he said.

Virtually the only students in college libraries Friday nights are Asians. It's not just being smart, but working hard also.

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Years ago, when I was tech writer for weird magazines such as Signal
and for other more-normal techish pubs, Jews littered the intellectual
landscape. They were all over high-end research, such as Bell Labs. The
big names were often Jewish, Einstein, von Neumann, Feynman, Gell-Mann,
Minsky.

The staff list for the Manhattan Project read like a Yeshiva
yearbook. The same happened in the arts.

Bernstein, Landowska,
Rubinstein, Stoppard (“Maidens in search of Godhead…and vice versa.”) Jews were smart, most people
figured, not necessarily liking it. I wondered why without great
interest. Genetic determinists of course cooked up evolutionary
explanations involving undiscovered genes acted upon by unquantifiable
selective pressures to produce assumed results not correlatable with the
pressures. Business as usual.

Later I began to notice without
thinking about it that the Jewish names were growing thin on the ground.
These were not systematic observations. But Asian names were becoming
prominent almost everywhere. The Feinsteins seemed to be in recession,
if only anecdotally.

Something odd was happening, I barely noticed.

Then Ron Unz published The Myth of American Meritocracy,
documenting a stunning turnaround of which I had been only vaguely
aware. The book deals substantially with corruption in admissions to Ivy
schools, with some (I think) good ideas for reform. It also charts the
sharp decline in Jewish achievement and the meteoric rise of the Asians.
(Actually I think falling is more what meteors do, but cliches are
cliches.)

One of the guns used in the November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks
came from Phoenix, Arizona where the Obama administration allowed
criminals to buy thousands of weapons illegally in a deadly and futile
“gun-walking” operation known as “Fast and Furious.”

A Report of Investigation (ROI) filed by a case agent in the Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) tracked the gun used
in the Paris attacks to a Phoenix gun owner who sold it illegally, “off
book,” Judicial Watch’s law enforcement sources confirm. Federal agents
tracing the firearm also found the Phoenix gun owner to be in possession
of an unregistered fully automatic weapon, according to law enforcement
officials with firsthand knowledge of the investigation.

The tables have turned in this week’s White House Watch. After trailing
Hillary Clinton by five points for the prior two weeks, Donald Trump has
now taken a four-point lead.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey of
Likely U.S. Voters finds Trump with 43% of the vote, while Clinton earns
39%. Twelve percent (12%) still like another candidate, and five
percent (5%) are undecided.

“Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.”
―Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

“In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.”

“Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.”

“Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.”

We westerners should do it and not offer any apologies for trying to do so.

A National International is emerging that's against collectivist neo-liberal experiments like the EU and North American Union, and rejecting its mass-migration and cultural relativism. We believe there is something inherently unique and distinctive about our civilization, and certainly cultures, peoples and races are inherently incompatible with it. We shouldn't offer any apologies for desiring to preserve our cultures. The Chinese, Japanese and Koreans for all practical purposes embrace integral nationalism and don't offer any damned apologies for doing so. It's innate and natural.

The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi put it aptly, post-9/11:

We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and — in contrast with Islamic countries — respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance. . . The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.